New Deliveries / First Flights etc August 2011
 

Please post any information/questions about new deliveries (and new aircraft movements), first flights etc in our region in this thread.

Just updating/correcting the ID's of the 2 Qlink/Sunstate DHC8's that arrived in Canberra on Sunday.

The first one (LQE) will apparently become VH-LQD (LQE is current as a TB20 Tobago).
The second one (LQG) will become VH-LQH.

This is according to Skyliner news who corrected the registrations.
Neither of them are on the CASA register yet so can't confirm at this stage.

A third DHC8-400, VH-LQF (4375), has left Downview (yesterday) so should see it arriving by the weekend. Ferry reg is C-GJKV.

As Sarah mentioned in the July thread, the routing is quite interesting.

As before, I am taking info from Skyliner reg news.

The routing for the first 2 was:

Downview - Winnipeg - Yellowknife - Fairbanks - Nome - Magadan (Russia).
Next leg quoted was Saipan to Port Moresby and assume direct to Canberra.

According to a worker on the ground in Canberra there is already three brand new dash-8s there.

Nothing (extra/unknown) picked up on my systems; can only go by what is reported Zac.
Will monitor anyway and post any new movements.

Are these the new Q400's for the up-coming Perth base?

They will enable 2 400's to go to Perth, but it won't necessarily be the new ones going there.

The new 400's tend to stay close to a maintenance base until the bugs gets ironed out.

REFER TO POST BELOW...MORE ACCURATE THAN MY ORIGINAL POST.

Can a mod please delete this post?

A Look tonight from the carpark saw only two -Q400's on the ground. I was informed about three different ones earlier in the week, but it seems to have dropped to two (All in all I was told of about 4 different regos). -LQG was moved outside the hanger this evening, while -LQD was inside getting a bit of pre service work done to her.

Just came across this photo on Wikipedia of one of the two ATRs that will soon be delivered to Virgin Australia.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...px-Msn_955.jpg

Note the FVI on the nosegear doors. So it seems that MSN 955 will be registered as VH-FVI.